The Man Who Made Babe Ruth: Brother Matthias of St. Mary's School - Softcover

Martin, Brian

 
9781476673363: The Man Who Made Babe Ruth: Brother Matthias of St. Mary's School
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1476673365 ISBN 13: 9781476673363
Verlag: McFarland, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

At six-feet-six, the hulking Martin Leo Boutilier (1872-1944) was hard to miss. Yet the many books written about Babe Ruth relegate the soft-spoken teacher and coach to the shadows. Ruth credited Boutilier--known as Brother Matthias in the Congregation of St. Francis Xavier--with making him the man and the baseball player he became. Matthias saw something in the troubled seven-year old and nurtured his athletic ability. Spending many extra hours on the ballfield with him over a dozen years, he taught Ruth how to hit and converted the young left-handed catcher into a formidable pitcher. Overshadowed by a fellow Xavierian brother who was given the credit for discovering the baseball prodigy, Matthias never received his due from the public but didn't complain. Ruth never forgot the father figure who continued to provide valuable counsel in later life. This is the first telling of the full story of the man who gave the world its most famous baseball star.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Award-winning journalist Brian Martin lives in London, Ontario. He is a member of the selection committee of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and the Society for American Baseball Research.

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Verlag
McFarland
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1476673365
ISBN 13 
9781476673363
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
228
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